“It’s just like any neighborhood watch program. It’s not targeting any specific ethnicity. We would report anything we see to law enforcement,” Frank Ancona, the organization’s imperial wizard and president, told PennLive. “We don’t hate people. We are an organization who looks out for our race. We believe in racial separation. God created each species after its kind and saw that it was good.”

According to its website, the organization — headquartered in Park Hills, Mo., with local chapters in every state but Hawaii — is a “non-violent” and “law abiding group” composed entirely of white Christians. The group claims to have “been misunderstood for years.”